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My Viewpoints About Xinhua News Agency's Report of Shenli Lin
Written by Yange
(Clearwisdom.net)
After the Xinhua News Agency [the official Chinese Government press agency]
cut out President Bush's speech at Tsinghua University, it published an English
report on February 24 creatively entitled: "Falun Gong Practitioner Shenli
Lin Is Released After Receiving Humanitarian Care." After reading the
entire article, I found out that the so-called "Humanitarian care"
here referred to the illegal detention of Mr. Lin for two years in a
forced-labor education camp in Mainland China. It is really
"humanitarian" that a person who was newly married was "cared
for" by two years detention in a labor camp of Mainland China, if you'll
excuse my sarcasm.
What is even funnier is what it said in the second paragraph, "The
penitentiary staff told Xinhua: "Although Lin did not give up his belief in
Falun Gong and did not admit any fault during his detention, he received good
care." The underlying meaning is: if a Falun Gong practitioner wants to
receive "good care," he ought to "break away (from Falun
Gong)" and "repent (that he ever practiced Falun Gong)." However,
this practitioner, Shenli Lin, neither "broke away" nor
"repented," but was still given "good care." You might be
thinking, how "humanitarian" is that?
Then what is the so-called "good care"? Please notice that it was
admitted in a report by Xinhua News Agency that Falun Gong is a kind of belief
and that freedom of belief is protected by China's constitution. Should Mr. Lin
receive "good care" in a forced-labor camp for two years just because
Mr. Lin refused to give up his belief of Falun Gong? Xinhua News Agency's report
in the end didn't tell the readers what on earth Mr. Lin had done that would
cause him to receive "good care" in a labor camp, nor did it give any
specific explanation about the reason why the "care" to Mr. Lin was
extended for an extra year. Obviously Xinhua News Agent dared not tell the
readers the reason why Mr. Lin had been cared for in such a
"humanitarian" way.
We know that in the past two and half years, at least 369 innocent Falun Gong
practitioners have been persecuted to death and many of them died of torture and
brutal beatings. They obviously did not receive "good care" because
they refused to give up their own belief. Whereas the reason why Mr. Lin
received somewhat "better" treatments than those other 369 fellow
practitioners, is not that the labor camp made him an exception, but that his
wife Ms. Jinyu Li made great efforts over the past 2 years as well as the strong
appeal from the Canadian government and people. Mr. Lin didn't give up his
belief, and fortunately survived and came back. No wonder Xinhua News Agency
would sing the praises of their "humanitarian good care," so as
deceitfully to make themselves look good now that the glare of international
opinion is upon them.
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